The saying within the writer's room, which were my words of wisdom, if you will, was, "The punishment doesn't have to fit the crime, but there has to be a crime."

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

People choose the paths that grant them the greatest rewards for the least amount of effort.

You make decisions and choices, and you're never going to know if they're the ideal choices, but you make them and you make the most of them.

You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important. And wishing never works.

Like I always say, there's no "I" in "team." There is a "me," though, if you jumble it up.

If we were to care about every person suffering on this planet, life would shut down.

You have to make changes before people are clamoring for changes. If people are asking for changes, it's too late.

You have to be driven by the stories that you want to tell. You can't simply be responding, or there won't be any real heart to those stories anymore.

There are three choices in this life: be good, get good, or give up.

It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.

If I can't have a revolution, what is there to dance about.

I think it's very important, even if you're not in organized sports, but just to be active, to be healthy.

Worriers spend a lot of time shoveling smoke.

It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation.

It's great to be back on terra cotta

There was no one color that could paint Lena Duchannes. She was a red sweater and a blue sky, a gray wind and a silver sparrow, a black curl escaping from behind her ear.

I never really understood what was expected of me as a man, or how I was supposed to interact with women, but worse, with other guys. I did not relate to them.

I lost my public self, or had it stolen. In a way, it was a form of identity theft.